In the winter quarter of 2016, I taught a graduate seminar at UC Santa Cruz that brought together multispecies anthropology and the anthropology of religion to consider humans as ontologically relational beings.…
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Sensing the Social
Prosoche: Or, how not to lose a bear
October 12, 2025
Henry Cowles and Caleb Smith’s thought-provoking exchange raises questions about the possibility, and desirability, of remaining focused and attentive in a culture of constant distraction. They explore the “attention problem” from a…
October 12, 2025
Sensing the Social
Conclusion: Sensing the social with DALL·E 3
October 12, 2025
I’ve long been interested in how we think about and conceptualize scholarly ideas. As editor, I have worked with academics at all career stages to convey specialist knowledge using more accessible language.…
October 12, 2025
Karmic historiography
Buddhism and deliberative democracy
October 8, 2025
Introduction: Deliberative democracy, West and East Democracies today face turbulent times. Populism, polarization, and entrenched inequality threaten their foundations, while authoritarianism continues to rise—democracy has declined for 18 consecutive years. In this…
October 8, 2025
Karmic historiography
For all intents and purposes (the ecology)
October 1, 2025
Technology looms large in the contemporary world, and powerful new tools to extract and generate texts using large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, have had a major impact across a broad spectrum…
October 1, 2025
Karmic historiography
Risky play
September 24, 2025
The challenge “Interdependence” is often evoked as a Buddhist term, but it is also frequently misappropriated in terms of “relational realism” or interconnected webs of beings. Buddhist theories of interdependence or “codependent…
September 24, 2025
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